Hi everyone!
This is the summary of Writing Skill Essay workshop which I delivered with my team when I was in University on May 25th, 2011. I think this is very relevant skills for those of you seek essay writing technique especially in english. Besides the technique, I provide very specific detail in essay language aspects which would be very useful for you to develop your language skills in writing essay. So, this is my real experiences in summary how to write essay well. I took a lot of resources especially from TOEFL iBT Writing Skills. Hope this would help you a lot! Thank you for reading!
How to write Essay?
Steps Writing Essays | Elaboration |
Preparing to write | ü Brainstorming ideas, different points of viewü Reading and gathering informationü Practicing related vocabularyü Making prediction, ideas, arguments, and inferences ü Analyzing comparisons, causes-effects, general and specific ideas, examples, advantage, disadvantages, problems ü Distinguish facts and opinions ü Evaluating personal experiences |
Identifying types of essay | ü Describe something/state an opinion/show a relationship between two things/solve a problem |
Organizing paragraph | ü Topic sentences(can be at the beginning, middle, or at the end of paragraph)ü Bridge sentences(connect it to examples)ü Explanation and elaboration to support the main ideasü Restates the main ideas ü Achieve coherence (logical connection through using pronouns, repetition of key words, and paraphrase. ü Use outline, a list, graphic organizer ü Use listing signals (first, second, third, and finally) ü Use sentence connectors
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Developing Academic Essay |
ü General to specific
ü Explain & support ideas
ü Restatement of thesis |
Evaluating essay | ü Content:
ü Organization:
ü Vocabulary and sentence structure:
ü Grammar:
ü Spelling and Mechanics |
Essay Languange Aspects
Learning Objectives | Topic |
Language AspectsIntroduction | ü Vocabulary and sentence structure:
ü Grammar:
ü Spelling and Mechanics |
Developing Cohesion and Styles | ü Achieve coherence(logical connection through using pronouns, repetition of key words, and paraphrase)ü Connects Phrase (also, so, but)ü Pronouns (I, we, you, he, she, it)ü Articles (a/the) ü Giving examples (such as) ü Using there and it ü Dependent clauses (because) ü Using Quantifiers (many, some, a few, most, a lot of, all + count n) (much, some, most, a lot of, a little, all + noncount n) ü Use listing signals (first, second, third, and finally) ü Use sentence connectors
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Giving Opinions & Suggestions | ü Use should, need to, it would be better if. |
Showing Causes & Effects | ü Noun + causes/leads to/result in/contributes to + nounü Noun + comes from, results from, is a result of , is caused by+ noun |
Citing Authorities | ü According to (Name+qualification) + quoted wordsü Quoted words +said, stated, claimed, predicted (Name +qualification)ü (Name+Qualification) said, stated, claimed, predicted (that) |
Expressions for making comparisons | ü Similarities: X is as (adjective) as Y, Both X & Y are, Neither X & Y is.., X and Y are alike because they share, X is similar to Yü Differences: X is….but Y is.., X is more/less (adj) than Y, X and Y are different because…Unlike X, Y is…, Although X is…., Y is.. X is…. On the other hand, Y is… |